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Election News Digest: September 2 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-02
Scranton mayor launches House bid in Pennsylvania swing district Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti (D) launched her bid for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district on Tuesday, teeing up a challenge against incumbent Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.). In her launch video, Cognetti repeatedly hit Bresnahan over stock trading and over his vote supporting the Republican mega bill and its impact on Medicaid access. “Congressman Rob Bresnahan lied when he promised he would ban congressional stock trading, and he lied when he said he would protect access to health care. What’s even worse is that Bresnahan is profiting off our pain, playing the stock market while voting to screw us over in Washington,” Cognetti said in a statement. thehill.com/...
Democrats face an increasingly frustrated base over redistricting Democrats are scrambling to keep their nascent crusade against President Donald Trump’s national redistricting push from fizzling out. House Democrats are considering establishing an organization to raise and spend for their remapping efforts as they look to counter an aggressive Republican move that could determine control of the chamber next year, according to three people granted anonymity to describe private conversations. And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has privately discussed redistricting with blue-state governors, according to another person. The Center for American Progress is urging blue states to abandon their independent redistricting commissions . And, through private strategy sessions and public appeals, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu is asking Democrats across red and blue states to take a no-holds-barred approach to resisting GOP redistricting. Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin praised Wu during a meeting in Minneapolis last week for “igniting a national movement within this party.” www.politico.com/...
Eric Adams’s Last Stand As the curtain goes up on the post–Labor Day push to Election Day, Mayor Adams, tanking in the polls, is making unsubtle tribal appeals to the Black communities that powered him to victory four years ago, frequently reminding voters that he is second Black mayor in city history after David Dinkins. But political leaders in vote-rich Harlem, Central Brooklyn, and Southeast Queens neighborhoods are increasingly connecting with Zohran Mamdani or Andrew Cuomo, and polls suggest that voters are doing the same. The mayor’s collapse in support is not new. Back in January — before Cuomo entered the race and well before Mamdani’s surge, at a time when Adams was facing federal corruption charges — one survey found that only 6 percent of Black voters said the mayor should run for reelection, compared with an eye-popping 78 percent that said he should quit. nymag.com/...
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